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What does window dressing mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word window dressing? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The decorative display of retail merchandise in store windows; the goods and trimmings used in such a display.
  2. (uncountable) The process, skill or task of creating such a display.
  3. (idiomatic, uncountable) A means of creating a deceptively favourable impression of something or someone; something for appearance only.
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Or was it, as his rivals claim, merely window dressing designed to conceal as well as reveal?
Superficially, there may appear to be a change but it takes more than window dressing to affect real change.
My impression of Xena from the TV days was of a frivolous show with attractive window dressing.
Tell him of your down-the-line fears and your wish not to be window dressing, if that's what he has in mind.
Some poets in Tottel's text did employ religious vocabulary as rhetorical window dressing.
Many faculty see shared governance as window dressing for rather dictatorial rule.

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